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In the United States, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a model framework that provides police with an alternative to criminal prosecution in cases involving low-level crimes related to drug use, mental health issues, and poverty. The multi-agency approach allows police officers to refer individuals to behavioral health services ...
A recent inspection of Michigan’s sole state-run juvenile justice facility for boys found dangerous conditions that employees have warned could lead to serious injury or death.
As of September about 35,000 migrants were being held in ICE detention facilities across the U.S., while the agency monitors another 195,000 under alternatives to detention as they advance through ...
The "Alternatives to Detention" program is tracking more than 25,000 migrants using ankle and wrist-worn monitors, which costs taxpayers an average of nearly $80,000 each day, according to ICE data.
Alternatives to detention refers to a set of policies and procedures related to immigration that does not rely on detaining and confining migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Alternatives to detention come in several forms such as parole , bail , family or community detention, case management, electronic tracking, welcoming visitations ...
Many anarchist organizations believe that the best form of justice arises naturally out of social contracts, restorative justice, or transformative justice.. Anarchist opposition to incarceration can be found in articles written as early as 1851, [14] and is elucidated by major anarchist thinkers such as Proudhon, [15] Bakunin, [16] Berkman, [15] Goldman, [15] Malatesta, [15] Bonano, [17] and ...
The detention facility in South Portland has, thankfully, shrunk to house just a couple dozen juveniles. But it has been plagued by problems and staff shortages, and it is extremely expensive ...
The Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) is a private-public partnership being implemented nationwide, with pilot programs in California, Oregon, New Mexico and Illinois. Their goal is to make sure that locked detention is used only when absolutely necessary. As of 2003, the JDAI had produced some promising results from their programs.